A patriot force under the command of Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs raids British occupied Long Island from Connecticut. The Americans capture loyalist prisoners and destroy British supplies before returning back to Connecticut. The patriots considered the raid a great success. The British gave up attempting to maintain a permanent outpost on the eastern part of Long Island.
Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic.
Book Recommendation of the Week: The Quiet Patriot, Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs: With Meigs's 1775 Journal of the Quebec Expedition, by Richard A. Mason, 2010.
Online Recommendation of the Week: The Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons, by Charles Hall: https://archive.org/details/lifeandletterss00hallgoog
ARP173 Treaties with France
ARP172 Winter at Valley Forge
AR-SP03 James Kirby Martin on the Saratoga Campaign
ARP171 Conway Cabal
ARP170 Whitemarsh
ARP169 Articles of Confederation
ARP168 Forts Mercer and Mifflin
AR-SP02 Author Kurt Avard on his book "First, Do No Harm"
ARP167 Defending the Delaware
ARP166 Surrender at Saratoga
ARP165 Bemis Heights (2nd Saratoga)
ARP164 Forts Clinton and Montgomery
AR-SP01 Dr. Ronald Gibbs on Medical Care and the Revolution
ARP163 Germantown
ARP162 Raid on Fort Ticonderoga
ARP161 Freeman's Farm (First Saratoga)
ARP160 Paoli Massacre & Fall of Philadelphia
ARP159 Battle of the Clouds
ARP158 Battle of Brandywine
ARP157 British Landing and Cooch's Bridge
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Lore